Thanks
Dan I actually didn’t go deep enough on that second undercut, by a whisker anyway.... sap-wood and other ‘by the book’ fail-safe’s didn’t figure much on those sections....more like tying to hinge a block of chalk. Sometimes it’s hard to know what and how much to include in a video as such....like Scots reaming cuts for example, which are by no means as easy as they look considering the amount of compression involved in that instance. Does anyone care I don’t know.
Gord, the fir opposite most likely would have taken the weight but it would have also gotten stripped bare of foliage as we lowered the log down. Furthermore, the majority of the firs in that area are in decline apparently, young and old....the suspicion is a recent rise in the water-table, which would be consistent with the fact that so many had blown down at the roots around and about that night. With that in mind I didn’t want to take the chance on the roots of a smaller fir to take a big load like that.
I’ll be totally honest with you Tom, the one handling comment was due to not knowing who watches and is influenced by stuff on youtube, in respect that a novice or a fool might not appreciate the potential danger.
However, personally speaking I’ll one handle a saw just as easy as breathing. If I’m comfortable, and it saves significant time and effort then I won’t even give it a second thought. If you watch that part of the video again you’ll see that the risk of injury (technique allowing) was minimal, just like the other 20 or so branches that I left out of the vid. Same goes with cutting and not always being tied in twice, if it doesn’t make sense or puts me at a greater risk then I’m not going to do it.
Bear in mind though that I not a teacher and neither is the video a tutorial. I’m merely showing some parts of how that job unfolded.
The camera is the Drift HD, I started a thread on it in the gear forum a little while ago.
Unfortunately Ricky most of them see me coming so it never even gets that far.
